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Re:A living "brain" of cultured rat cells can control an F-2... by sp332 on Thursday August 09, 2012 @07:35PM (#4363944)
It's already aware of its surroundings, and can respond to its environment.
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Re:A living "brain" of cultured rat cells can control an F-2... by sukuriant on Thursday August 09, 2012 @07:36PM (#4363946)
sentience then
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Re:A living "brain" of cultured rat cells can control an F-2... by icebraining on Thursday August 09, 2012 @09:12PM (#4364292)
An instance of Nginx can also respond to its environment, but I wouldn't call it sentient.
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Re:A living "brain" of cultured rat cells can control an F-2... by sukuriant on Thursday August 09, 2012 @09:20PM (#4364316)
precisely. So, then replace 'consciousness' with 'sentience' in my original proposition. I am not saying response to an environment is sentience; but, when using living brain tissue, there may be a chance that these computers will eventually display sentience.
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